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the first supreme court decision a trumpio administrat policy but just as much of the country is divided over tdent april his policysi pling srehowed the nation's highest court is as well. the tremendous victory for people ar constitution. the president toheredaelhey cteebra court's ruling calling the endorsement of his ban travel from mostly muslim nations a momentun of profo vined did i educationment we have to be tou and we have to be safe and we have t be a secure. at a minum we have to make sure that we vet pmiple co into the country. at issue washe whether trump administration third and policy affecting visitors from ve mus majority nations discriminates on the basis o nationality and religion. the five to fourneuling determi the president's \power/pours wasn't undermined by hispr ious statement saying muslim sose a threat to americans. chief justice roberts acknoedged the president's remarks but said,
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quote, the issue is not whether to denounce the president's statements, but the significance of those statements in reviewing a presidentl directive, neutral on its face addressing a matter within the core of executive responsibility. in her desent just justice sonia so e mor yeah said the court got was motivated by anti muslim and the mates. we cannot walk away from theact of all this all started which is a president that said he wan to ban all muslims from our country. the onus is on us to protect liberties that may a be jeopardized by rash or prudential action. after today 's ruling he they democrats . any push to over or limit the presint's travel ban is likely dead on arrival. in washington, i'm garret ten any, fox new sphwhrs reactions pouring in about the
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decision court's deis s. one group, the cncil on islamic relationsas been target so far. we stiop havee in our socie. we have hope in alour pol system and yes, we have hope in our court system,av but e more hope in our will toreatehange and provide equal protection forop pe irrespectivef their faith. the group expectso the ruling t be a major issue come election time. s frustration are really growing tonight as my grants separated from their kids at t the bordered to reunitethe0 migrant families hey been split and some parents say it's been weeks since they've seen their kids. government official are sayingng they're doing ever they can to bring these b familiesk together. the first thi we do when they come to an hhs shelt within 24
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hours is ensure they are connectedeno a par or a family loved one so that the parent or the family member can know the child is safe andre secure and they are. the justice department is asking fed judge to amend a class action settlement that golferses how children are treated inn immigr custody. right now, children -- right now children cann be detained for more than 20 days. therump administration is seeking to ld families indefinitely. >> and there isid new v from border pat agents apprehend ing 357 migrants at theca u/n border in ardz. they foun the group friday after receiving an anonymous nine s 11 ll for help. the group was temperatures as high as-d 108rees and many of the migrants were showing signs of dehydration when they were picked up. and developing story right now a stafford county jail officer is recovering after himself in the legment this happened at the stafford county
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courthouse today. no word on his condition or how it happenet in first place. the case agait george thompson fell apart after last month after police footage of body worn coverage failed to show officers car. he was on camera and recorded the entire time. despite that th prosecutors wthri 's office took c the court ase april lost. the case george thompsont fellns fric polras month after footagem failed to give thompson given officers permission to research his car. he was on camera and rerded as you mentioned, the entire time. that's george thompson standingutside his honda minute i he van last november when d.c. police officers pled him over for having bad tags. b his own account he's unemployed and home less living out of his car and drove into d.c. to visit his
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movement he's cooperative and helpful answering all of the officem questions telling the where they could find his walle . wha follows is anwe exchange bet two of the officers ovee whether they permission to search the car. where's the wallet? do you want to get consentea idy did. oh. you got consent to search. officer asks about consent, but remember,time, and thompson is always on camera does he t the officers they haveermission to search. what happens next is what gets thompson into real trouble. the officer who pulled him over ptices a gunermit in his wallet and asks himf i the carn tells the officers he has a bag
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of guns all o legallywned and registered in maryland thatre a disassembled. he explas he' an unemployed security guardnd is living out of his car. oh, my god. they all disassembled. >> that doesn't matter in d.c. >> so george tom soins charged, but it ultimately did not hold up and here's why. at that point once the search begins, at thats point, it' all bad \am/many it's c allonstitution ally infirm. it'sta toviolation of the fourth amendmen for example, the statements that mr. top son later makes are what's called a freu the poisonous tree. in other words, as well as the weapons that are o found. allf that is inadmissible in court. svid been wit did not defense thompson in court, jack gilmore did. heab was unavail to comment and told us today the officer initially made the stop stuck by his story on the stand and h claimed head gotten permission toon cnt to search.
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been wits says these body worn cameras have nowhanged the way defense attorneys go to work. the body worn camera is a game changer in the district of columbia and aroun the country for these types of issues and a her types of issues. been wits snds the law the arrest was on the officers' side in this ce, but the failure to get consent tone search rui it all. when we first m george thompson last november he telling us then he hoped theng judge would show som mercy. we're wondering what happened to the officer who made that initial sto dent. police told us today no misconduct allegation has been filed against that officer. he is not under investigation. as formp george thon he's working again, but stilleless. in the fox5 news room, i'm paulgn er. a new message aimed at preserving the view directly in front of mount vernon. dominion
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ceer across. matt ackland has theer story. >>report i'm sitting at the front por of mount vernon, boy t there is aoncern that that view may not lk so great if a development goes clear across the river in maryland. visiting mount vernon is almost like stepping back in time, the home of george washington made to look as it did when he lived here part of that experience, the view. >> it's very relaxing. i thought to myseli was going to come this way just to sit here for few minutes. laura bancroft is visit from rry what a natural gas station across the river in maryland could do to that view. think that would be atroash just. weii went no. that ridge line is a fferent column ork it's right
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in that area there. dewing brad burn is the ceo of mount vern ofnlt he tells us charles county has alreadyaid no torehe ssion station but worriesmi nion energy will look for a key area to move forward we don't know what might happen in the future. dominion energy say s itas worked with mount aears place that won't impac the view. a companypokesperson says dominion energy doesn want to hurt the view. ed w they so it doesn't hurt the view. the folkst thare a say it's time toggivth're askint making comments on social media, this development doesn't take pce. at m vernon, matt ackland, fox5 local news. >> the cost to take an uber or lyft is going up in the city. d.c. city council unaniusly to
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race taxes on ride hailing apps it go from 6 percent to 10 perc the tax on a ride will be 630 cents. straight ahead tonight, metro taking steps tor improve safet itself ' ' workers, we're gng to tell you what the transit agently is rolling out raisingng a b flag for parents. we'll he details on what you need to look for. tom fitzgerald,. >>reporter: good evening, it is primary day h in maryland and how are they going to fix the big mixup overistration? we talked to the state top offerings. we'll tell you what they had to s, but first how are you doing? still time to get to the poos, no doubt bit. second day in a row of lovelyita ions. we've had a few clouds out there and our teeratures 80. we have some upper 730s and even some mid 7 s on the map. very unusual for june. we're about to mix
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in maryland t failedo make some changes by voters in their state elections board. tom fitzgerald is live in silver springs with more. t problem just got worse and worse. >>reporter: it dis,m. you consider this situation with these registrations a lot of people are wondeng how can this possibly happen in these folks didhe t right thing, these kiosk. they went to the v.a. website they changed their dress. they told the stateere t information simply never made it voter v.a. over to the rolls of the board of elections in the state. so here we have a situation now where you h ten s of thousands of people going to voting places liked ths aneing told you're voting inthes happen, mv a says ip t is u the board of elections to sort this allutseoters are going to be allow to voteal with
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profes balance office s oiaol us this mixup could delay somets of the r in some of the closest races in maryland tonight. this is how we count balance office we start with elec day and early strting . tn we into and tea and provisions ando we expect another ten o to 12 days voting so it's possible that votes can come down to absentee tea provi tonals but that'she process we're used to and we're prepared for that. keep in min at this polling place we visited in heethesda today, turnout very, very light, sporadic at best. hower when we were there one voter did a show upnd was told that they r wereister ed in the wrong district . the f blow backm democrats in marand h been hot and fears, some callingor the head of the m v.a. to step down. now the general assembly will probably this summer open up hearings on this. fox spo
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wiie pe and he he says democrats a furious and think want answers from the hogan add administration. the general assemblyill be dealing with this and they're not goingo wait l until the januaryon legislative s comes around . there will be hearings this summer because the level of coern and for some the level of outrage is high enough you that this needs to bess aed immediately. remheber, t big race we're keeping an eye on tonight, the democratic primary, the gubinatorial race, been gel and raised tonight rushern baker a at the top of the heap they're pollingt.t 20 pe that's a very close race. it could be affected by with the m we're going to have to keep a which one of these democrats is going to challenge larry hogan in novber. tom fitzgerald ul perhaps it was a beaut away.y
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ifsometimes say that. the bad weather makes and the goo pdeo s people do somet else. you still have l until 8:00. you're not allow to complain if you don't vote. >> that hasn't stopped people before. >> i'm not hearing many complaints about ty weather it's so nice. 83-degrees i think was our high. it's 80ee s now. dlitful afternoon and evening. a few clouds arod but we're going to get ready to introduce a little bit more rain into yourt forecas for your wednesday. you can see we have a little bit of cloud coverut there this evening, a few clouds this afternoonment they're a little bit thicker as n look dow through central virginia where a couple oow ers are also falling this afternoon and evening. onward to talk about these gorgeous temperatures. you don't see this very often in late june. nchester 73 degrees right now. a culpepernd manassas at 75, martinsburg, 76, thier cloudcove diff pence. where you'veped into the sunshine a little bit
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more've got frederickt a 84, district at 80 even westminster at 88-degrees. we're kind of all over the place in the d temperatepartment this afternoon. much of the mid atlantic kind of reflectingng te samement you get up towards new york city it's only 73. d.c. is 830, knoxville 89. warm air ts buildino our south and west and we're going to see it getting in here bfy te en the week. for tonight we're keeping a eye on clouds that will likely thicken ovnight. here's some anheth mhis tomorrow's rain that starting to belly up in places like charleston. we've had a few light showers i not muc don't think this is anything than perhaps a sprinkle. most what you see down here again has been very, ver light, closer to higherle etions and west of interstate 95 the most part. i don't thinkgo we'e g to see much here in the district in the evening hours other than just some clouds. 7:00 b temperaturey 9:00, 75 befunin o and enjoy its
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because what is ahead showers and storms returbeng and may orning commuteur tomorrow so get ready for that.s i wanted to j show you your planner for youor dayrow. we're going to start out at 73- degrees. a prettye comfor start. i think there will be some showers around by.com rush hour. by the may have a li bit and getting to about 77- degrees. after about p00 two, in the afternoon we do have to watch for the possibility of a couple more showers and a rumble of thunder with a temperature ofbout 80 degrees. more onhahe heat ist still continuing to shoap up onor our seven day fast later this week. that's all ahe in just a few minutes. a jim sarah. some metrong workers w some kind of high tech arm bands all in the name of safety. metro tested out the arm bands earlier this year. the work with communication boxes that work with the workers on the the
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tracks. a recommendation from the ntsb to improve safety for workers after a cra killed a worker at dupont circle some years a new report is a ra. ising conrnts sold in the te us must meet government standards butsew test t are showing that some of those helmets are 23409 doing a very good job. university techunivet 30 popular adult sized models and jus four of them earned the highest ratingse of fiv stars expert say more than 800 cyists were killed i crashes with motor vehicles in 2016. still ahead on the news at five, a routine call california fire takes a tragic turn. a fire captain shot and killeon the job many we're learning more about the ambush attack nowho dramatic videowing the moment when good samaritans came to the rescue of a family trapped on burning boat. is d.c. the best place to celebrate the fourth of july? you might be surprised where the nation's capital ranke among some of
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a california fire captain is dead hasholled during a fire ata retirement h o tsime.ntseivveede billing is now behind investigators believe that kim intentionally set the fire to lower thestir his apartment. maybe within 606 seconds of going into the building you heard two loud boom in longhis happened beach, california. fire captain dave rosa was killed. the second firedighter was t and release. another person who lives in the building remains ir ical but stable condition. powerful storms i georgia led to the death of a boy scout. the accidentappened at the burt robin reservation when heavy winds tom numerous trees. a year old boy scout and another one had justo gotten int
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the tenth. he was from texas and was among other scouts from all over the country. now to some intense moments caught on camera in florida as sixeople look to escapet the boa in fourth fort lauderdale. investigators say the firehe stt ed in engine area. it ickly spread to the rest of the boat, p all sixeople ended up being okay. a major break-in a pennsylvania murder mystery, 25 year old murder case with an arrest. in 199 # christie mor ak was beaten, sexually assault ed and strangled to death in her townhouse. dna evidence found at was generated in reston which led to the university of ofaryland at today as the schoolnt iduced a new athletic director. a final push ecne cross inbu blarg. the first official visit o member
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>> the university of maryland introducing a new oot letc damoo has been serving in theost on an interim post. he was chief in 2013. he lost his job as ad at the university of georgia. helso talked a a recent tragedy in the university, who collapsed after practicing on the feel. we lost member of our family, a young man who just withis smile warme up a room. ng a you man who loved chill pot
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lay thursday, which his roommate is going to continue, but aticis es we got to see what he he was really about by the people who filled the room, the people whohowed up as let us not forge jordan mack nair because he he will a forevr part of who we are. the university says angs outside conducting an investigation now into mack nair's death. here's a look at some of the top stor ies we are following right now. d.c. councilman vince gray is pressing for answer tonight about thatir v video of a controversiapolice search. shows a group of man standin outside of nooks s barbehop last week. officers searched man who they say had a bibi gun the officers allowim to leave but that allow them to search the other men. se problem the man with the bibi gun was an
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